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My truck has never had a spare tire carrier on it and I pulled to one off my parts truck. I has a loop of chain and another end of chain has uhh, Ill call it a thinger. Anywho, I think, again, I THINK, it works by somehow turning a the pulley shaped thing on one end and this in turn tightens or loosens the thinger. Question is, is this the original? Is there another part to this that I don't have? I should mention that I got it to turn a little bit and it has been sitting in a 5 gal bucket of waste oil for a day so I hope it frees up better, what could I do to this while it is off to keep it loose?

Thanks in advance and I hope you can understand my poor describing skills

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If you do have an original piece, it is turned by the long handled crank that is usally mounted by spring clips behind the front seat, it has a flat spot on the long end that fits into the small "pulley" on the carrier.. There would be a hole above the licence plate holder for you to stick it through... If you're putting it on a truck that had the spare tire in the bed, it may or may not have any of these holes or mounting... but shouldnt be too hard to figure out... If you dont have a crank, I'm sure you could use a decent diameter metal rod, flatten the tip and bend the end into the proper shape...

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My good truck does/did have a carrier under the truck but it looks like someone just cut the chain off or something. Any thoughts on keeping it lubed up?

Thanks

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The carrier is sort of a winch. The "thinger" goes through the middle hole of the spare wheel and hooks it. You crank the carrier up (with the above described crank) and that deal pulls the wheel and tire up against a frame crossmember and a flat chunk of sheet metal off the bed.

Keeping it lubed? I give mine a shot of oil, WD40, or pentrant maybe once every 4-5 years and it still works. Must be all that Oregon rain keeping it clean of crud, hehe. It isn't all that easy to move without the crank, which has a good one foot throw on the handle. Once you get it freed up you probably won't have much trouble with it if you pull the spare down one a year or so.

BTW, offtopic, but that looks like an Oliver 70 as your avatar am I warm? My Dad is a big Oliver fan, he's got a 66, 77, and Super 77 all needing restoration, and a 1550 he uses for farming every year.

nice eye, yes its an oliver 70, 1939 oliver row crop 70 to be exact My dad has got a super 77 and a 1750 he uses around the farm along with a couple whites. My family has always been all olivers and whites for tractors anyway.

And thanks again for the help, I pulled it out of the bucket of oil and it seems to turn reallly nice for me. Thanks again

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Lol keeping it lubed... Both of mine have endured the harsh winter/ salt combos of Maine for several years.... both sunk into the ground from sitting so long... and sat with the the bottom side in the dirt for a number of years.... Both of them still move freely with no problems...

~Aaron

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I thought that was a 70. I've pretty much got Oliver green for blood growing up around my Dad. He's sure proud of his 1550, its a fairly rare gas powered model.

Soaking your spare tire crank in oil probably means you have done more maintenance to yours than 99% of the rest of us. Hope it works out for you.

I got it on last night and wow, does that work slick. Someone was thinking when they decided to use that arm to lower it. Anywho, thanks for you help!

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I can see some old timer saying "Back in my day we didnt have those fancy Luv trucks, we rode around on tractors." hehe =P

LOL, first time I drove myself to school was on an Oliver 1550, didn't have my license or even a permit yet but I was legal to take the tractor on the road. I think I was about 13 or 14.